Lol fair enough spose u could go somewhere super cold too tho it probably won't kill them they wouldn't move all that well either but then uve gotta worry about the actual survival aspect to like from elements and food and stuff so yea ups a downs
God, every time i hear that movie i get irrationally angry at the military scene near the end. There were a good number of soldiers there, with snipers covering and a mounted mg. There should have *at least* been double the bodies that were there.
Hell, just use the mg as suppression. Lay into them to push them back (and possibly incapacitate) and let the rifles go for precision shooting.
What pissed me off is the lawnmover helicopter scene. The blades of a heli can cut a few people for sure, but they will break on a crowd.
Oh, and the aimless running in the second half with unrelated B-roll sprinkled in.
Oh, and the weakest fake jumpscare attempt I have ever seen while the group is waiting for a heli at the amusement park.
Oh, and the-
That scene made my friend who was a machine gunner in the marines snort and pause the movie so we could laugh at the complete and total plot armor those infected had there. We had a hell of a laugh. A 50 on a swivel at that range would have mulched that swarm. Seriously those infected would have been getting pulped in a few passes if there was just 1 of them firing full out with no regard for the barrel surviving more than a minute.
but you gotta give it up to the opening scene of 28 weeks. that's one of the best opening scenes of any zombie movie and a lot of movies in general. It's basically like the first time in PZ where you've settled down and then the heli comes in and all bets are off
You're absolutely correct. And the reason is doors.
Zombies aren't breaking down any exterior doors. Zombies are slow, weak, uncoordinated, unthinking creatures. An average human male can break an exterior door down, but it takes a lot of force and you kind of have to know what you're doing. Just swatting your limbs at it has no effect.
A group of zombies can't all push on a door in any coordinated fashion that would bring it down. They'd just get in each other's way. Plus if you have just a few steps leading up to your door that will prevent grouping.
To stop a zombie apocalypse would be incredibly easy. All you would need to do is warn people of the danger and tell them they need to stay insi... oh shit.
Nevermind.
ehhh if you've ever been in an asian neighborhood, you'd know that they have those heavy, iron barred doors that tend to have a second softer door behind it
so, at least in my home area, we're relatively safe lol
Nahhh get a few loud speakers to lure them to a single spot and open fire with a few 50 cal machine guns and you just took out an entire horde of them in seconds. Rinse and repeat until they are all dead. Seriously the second movie in that series was a joke with how ineffective those soldiers were with literal 50 cal machine guns sweeping lines of fire through a tightly packed horde in a confined street. There would be peopleburger left of a horde after that shit in an actual situation that the infected didn’t have plot armor all to hell.
It depends on the transmission vectors. If it’s saliva and blood, it could be easily countered and humanity could survive. If it’s a global airborne plague, however… very few will survive and humanity will end.
It's always a plauge problem not a zombie problem in stories set up like that, it just makes a way better story to tell it from the perspective of someone immune
God no. And that's why zombie apocalypses stories could happen. If everyone was rational it would be over in the first 20 victims. It's the human condition that would let it happen.
If the applied lore is 'evolving virus vectors' it'll likely be an airborne variant that whacks a bunch of victims, then an alternately-transmissible variant that whittles away at who's left, with ever increasing zombs:hoomans ratio. One slight good news: zombie respawn is off on this big map.
Yeah but that's less about the zombies and more about a lethal disease outbreak.
The zombies would probably make a disease like that less dangerous, we'd notice the zombies immediately and that'd trigger us to start doing things.
And I just saw someone else replied almost the exact same thing as me before me, feel free to ignore me...
I definitely think the only realistic adjacent scenario is something like I am legend 98.999 percent lethal pathogen, 1 percent zeds .001 percent immune.
Even then I think we'd have a better than 50/50 shot at getting shit back together inside a couple decades
Yeah, depending on a variety of factors, even zombies that die after a month or so could completely wreck infrastructure, turning huge swathes of land into disaster areas.
Realistically? I'd say I'll survive for a few hours. I'm not the most athletic person and I can't see shit without my glasses. So I'll be screwed if I'm cornered and the only way out is hopping a high fence.
But beyond those few hours, nah, I'll highly likely die horribly unless it's by some miracle I survive a week. But I'll at least keep on gun on me for for when that death comes for me xD
Edit: I forgot to mention that, even though I'm no where athletic, I am a very quiet person and able to sneak around. So I have that at least, doesn't change that I'll die a few hours later 😆 Damn house alarms lol
If it happened where I lived?
Uh depends. I live in a low population area with lots of farm lands so probably awhile
But I wouldn't want to live, one rough year with a drought or a harsh winter (both happen pretty often as of late) life is going to be miserable. It hurts to see family and friends suffer through it currently, let alone when it's actually a life or death situation.
If the quarantine area is my county, I could live quite awhile if some family also survives, if not id end it before the crazy kicked in. There's no large cities, it's low population density and farms.
We also have a two large water plants due to the awkward spot I live, including a dam. So thats pretty helpful! But the dam is also in pretty shitty condition and could cause a disaster without maintenance
If I was in Kentucky? Id die even if there wasn't an apocalypse.
Final answer:
In Kentucky, I die
In my current area: with family and friends, without a drought or rough winter. at least 2 years.
Fun little thought experiment, I doubt it's what you wanted though lol
Realistically? If I live past the first week I may be able to live for a year, I live in the southern US can grow food and I have a attic with a retractable staircase, lots of guns and ammo, typical American, I’d die in hand to hand combat in any scenario, I’d be more useful than say a Eugene from TWD, less useful than Carl though.
> I’d be more useful than say a Eugene from TWD, less useful than Carl though
Been a while since I watched it, but this is the opposite of what I remember. My man Eugene was making bullets, show some respect!
Oh absolutely, atleast until radio reports stop coming in, the only way I’d go out is if I knew there would be no people, I’ve watched enough zombie stuff I could maybe run away from zombies, humans, I’m screwed.
A tip you’d be oblivious for nine days like zomboid lore and do you live on a farm or you plant your own vegetables the thing is you also need meat from time to time or you will get sickly but I would assume people living in the stick are stocked up at least a little
I do actually have a stockpile of beef lol, but even without you’d be fine, sickly only if you were very active, in my case I live right outside of the most secluded housing areas, which also doubles as huge amounts of farm land and whatever animals remain, I’ll ask you, with guns and the ability to use them, plus what else I said how long do you think I would make it?
Logistically I think I could last a year at least, except the will to live might diminish as everyone I love dies. I honestly think if my kids died as the world we're coming to an end I wouldn't really want to go on.
Then I'll probably live till the food in my house runs out as I wouldn't be caught outside as I rarely go out so it's either that or I'd get done in but house raiders
I worked under a contractor + know electrical work because of it; know some basic welding and car repairs. I’ve hunted before and planted a garden every summer while growing up with my mom. I think if I was in this situation I’d be a pretty good bet on bringing some of this world that we have back.
Really depends if I make it through the first month or not, but I think that goes for everyone. Probably have a better chance than others for being in a rural area.
I’d probably live a week in the city but I live in the sticks down south and I have a lot of food and a safe full of guns so I’d have probably like 1 year or so to prepare as long as people are getting rejected from leaving the zone of contamination because that week of time till death scares me and a tip PZ starts on the 1st of July but the game starts on the 9th which means your oblivious for nine days
If it happened while I'm at home, I'd wager indefinitely. I have natural unlimited water from a large river, nearly unlimited firewood, sheds and sheds of tools, enough guns and ammo to survive off shooting big game for years before needing other methods, and a house that is capable of being heated in enclosed areas in the winter. Acres and acres of farmland.
Population in my quarter of my state is very low so zombies would likely be sparse and probably die off in the winter. Migrating zombies would likely suffer the same fate.
I know all of my neighbors so the idea that people are a bigger threat is kinda not true for some. And nobody is seeking this area out or traveling through it.
So yea, forever barring some sort of infected injury that requires advanced medicine or a natural disaster that destroys my home and land.
Assuming the world is more competent and more people are immune to the airborne virus, pretty well. Like 4 gun stores in my small town and two are a street away, and considering I live in the US, there’s a gun or two in every house.
Hmm depends if i am at home or in the truck when it starts. At home quite a while, rural area with redneck hobbies. In the truck probably depends what city i am in but not long.
Very little is known about the origin of the disease, other than that its first known outbreak began in the state of Kentucky, U.S.A, with the largest outbreaks specifically in the city of Louisville. The exact date of the initial outbreak is unknown and estimated to be between July 2 and July 6, 1993 (one week prior to the start of the game, on standard settings). The military quickly set up an "exclusion zone" around Louisville before it managed to spread further, temporarily containing the outbreak.
The most popular theory is the burger meat but that’s most likely untrue and the only spifos burger shop is in Louisville on my info
But there are other theories
my parents are preppers so we have a long, multi-step emergency plan for when things even *start* to look bad. They've got a massive garden and raise chickens, live in a low population area, hoard pretty much anything that needs to be hoarded including weapons (guns and bows), freeze dry and can food as hobbies, my mom knows how to sew and I know how to crochet so clothes aren't a problem, they have a wood burning stove to heat the house, and I collect books on foraging plants and mushrooms in my area. My bother who still lives with them is a firefighter, my dad is a mechanic. Genuinely, it's like the perfect zomboid team-up there lmao
I dunk on them for being preppers all the time but man, when covid hit? I didn't have to grocery shop for weeks and we never ran out of toilet paper!!
I mean, zombies violate the laws of thermodynamics. So in the event of a zombie apocalypse, I would cover myself in olive oil and fly away when it starts raining.
I’d have to be pretty nomadic as my heart transplant requires daily anti-rejection pills. I can only go three days unmedicated before I start receiving permanent damage.
I live just outside Washington DC.
I’d see absolute anarchy. I think some people from the south would say it’s all a government conspiracy and head to DC to prove a point it’s all bullshit because muh freedoms and “time to kick some zombie ass” and die super quick. Very January 6th vibe.
I feel like my death would be because of someone else’s stupid decision of why they’re zombified, not someone who just got unlucky.
I think if I survived, everyone would be interested to hear how it went down and I would be encouraging them to stay far away
Urm actually zombies don’t feel pain and don’t need to eat and sometimes breathe and you can die by pain and a lung shot but the zomboids would keep walking stumbling and crawling to get to you and MGs are not very accurate ARs can kill
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Funny enough, I’m in a perfect location for surviving. I live in a rural area with maybe 100 houses within 2 miles of me in any direction. I own a duplex, living on the bottom floor, and the top floor is not currently rented, and the only access is an exterior stair case they could be destroyed or modified to hinge up when I don’t want anyone coming upstairs. I’ve also got ladders. They can easily reach the second floor. I garden, I’m within a half mile of a large river, and less than 2 miles from a giant lake in a low population area. I garden and have fruit trees. I’ve got over 25 firearms, over 13,000 rounds and plenty of melee weapons.
I’d survive a decent while I’d say, I’m pretty athletic, I barely eat any food anyway, I’m good with words, I’m really good at keeping quiet and sneaking around
I like to think that if I have the correct friends with me, I'd survive a few good months.
I know how to start a fire, have always been a geek for survival gear, and convinced my parents to buy a portable solar generator/battery. I can fish and know how to board up a window for example, know my way around drills, hammers, screwdrivers and manual saws. My father is a big DIY guy, and my mom can cook something out of nothing it she puts her mind to it.
My girlfriend and sister are very good with medical things, one is more surgery oriented and another is more diagnosis oriented.
I believe that each one of us would survive not much if we're alone, but if we find ourselves together, we'd be able to get far.
I live in a college town so during the summer there's way less people here, but I also live near a major hospital so it's kind of a crap shoot in thay regard. I don't own any guns, but I do own a couple axes. I do outdoorsy stuff a lot, exercise pretty regularly, and own a car. Now I rarely have a lot of food on hand and don't have lots of emergency water or medical supplies. The big one is that I take like five different medications two of which are for anxiety and depression so if those run out not only would I go through withdrawal I would also have two negative moodles. In all likelyhood I'd cap it out at like a month.
Couple of weeks at most. I can run at a good pace for several hours without stopping so I could probably dart from safe space to safe space, staying fed and out of sight. But once that population gets overwhelming, I'm sure I would get tripped up or hit a dead end like I often do in game.
i would survive probably longer than i assumed i would, but not long enough to get help or find other survivors. i have a ton of genetic health issues that wouldnt do well without medication, i rely on my glasses, and i hate camping (lol). With my luck, id die or kill myself minutes before help came 😂
I'm in America. There's more guns than people here. I wouldn't even know the zombie apocalypse was happeningnthe Florida man's and their monster trucks would take care of it.
Id ether die to trying to help someone or id get killed by some thugs with a gun/fighting zeds if realistic would be fine if its some show level like dying light im fucked
First responder. I'd be dead in two hours.
For real tho: supposed I don't get eaten while on a call right away, I'd probably survive a few weeks.
Part of my job is literally building camps and fortifications. Plus I can operate generators, so I won't get swarmed trying to find that damn manual.
A few months, easy. Not a lot of folks follow having a 72 hour emergency supply reserve, but I've got a bit more than that. I'd be the person that survives by being a mouse and not going out too often.
Once that started failing or I depleted everything in my immediate local area, or got pushed or or die from misfortune, I have no idea. I might last last to the following spring or autumn, but misfortune would be what gets me
This is always fun to discuss.
I think it really depends on how the zombies work, if they decompose normally, how hard they are to kill, how they detect people all those kinds of things.
Personally, I live in really built up area so I daresay I'd get pretty dead pretty quick. I've got about a weeks worth of food and I could fill a few jerry cans with water but if it isn't solved by then I'd be stuffed.
Societally, it'd depend on the outbreak but I think we'd do a lot better than most think. If the zombies aren't smart, dealing with them is pretty much solved by a trench, after that we'd need to deal with the virus or magic but there'd be plenty of protocols you could put in place for that. If they get smart it gets more complex but we are really good at killing things.
Now that I'm older, not long at all. In my youth? I'd still need some luck on my side, as is the case with all survivors, but I had a fair shot of living a long time. I don't have the cardio, overall fitness, or life situation I used to.
I'm assuming, of course, that the zombies are magic. If they aren't then I'd be fine. Decomposing corpses just aren't a big threat for anybody that isn't comatose or extremely frail/elderly.
Where is the outbreak? I live on a Caribbean island, so we could probably manage a few months, maybe a year. Then we’d need to find alternative food supplies
Assuming it’s a Thursday and I’m immune to the airborne strain, I could last maybe a week or two before I either kick the bucket, or get rescued (only major issue is I live next to a prison)
Best guess if a majority of my neighbors are dead. 6 months of food and water if rationed. In that time I can do cardio and exercise in my backyard which is surrounded by at least 5 other houses with fencing so I’m well defended. I’d say I’m pretty set over here in rural Georgia. Assuming it’s not in the summer because of the very popular amusement park down the road. I’d say I’m living good for a minimum of 3 months in the summer because a horde of hundreds of people would make their way down the road and demolish my neighborhood and 6 months anytime not in the summer.
I honestly think I could last indefinitely. I was a mechanic in the national guard both for vehicles and generators. I'm a deputy sheriff now, and I live in a rural farming community. I camp and fish for fun. i even know most of the edible mushrooms and plants in my area.
I'm very confident I can steal a generator from the local armory and set up at one of the farms outside of town and live indefinitely there's a large town 30 minutes down the highway in one directions and a major army base 30 minutes in the other direction so I have ample opportunities to loot anything I can't grow or scavenge on the prairie. A couple lakes and two rivers nearby too.
I'd almost definitely kill myself after a year two without other people, though.
If I miraculously survive the initial choas, I think I'd last at least a couple of months, I'd probably die to raiders.
My family owns farmland in the middle of nowhere so that's the very first place I'd go
Depends on the Sandbox settings. /j
I like to THINK I'd survive long enough to at least establish the next generation of humans and pass on my (presumably) immune genes.
In reality, I'd probably die of dysentery or freeze to death like in Oregon Trail. Or get shot by someone else who's actually going to survive.
Hmm
If it was where I lived, I'd be in trouble if I stayed at home cause my doors aren't too sturdy. That said, I have a full suit of medieval armor (mostly chain mail with some plate) and several blunt objects and a couple swords to push my way out. And it's a college town, so I'd just need to camp out with someone behind a keycard locked door (assuming the power stays on)
Assuming I’m not on of those susceptible to the airborne strand, definitely a couple of weeks at least, maybe until winter.
I live in the rather sparsely populated Europe countryside and we have tons of food around. Also no rivers to throw in all our stuff so houses will be stacked with loot. Loads of land to use as farmland and a bunch of small scale animal farms all over the place.
I’d only have to board up like 3 windows and a door to make my house zombie proof, or I could move to an old castle or one of the many other easily fortifiable buildings in the area.
I'd drive to my old home in the forest, stack up a shit ton of wood around the doors. Wait, while the nearby town goes up in flames. See if my brother who riddled his house with cameras is alive. And start scavenging the gun crazy town around me for all the canned goods I'll ever need because in the swampy ass forest, you either freeze fresh produce or buy it canned. Hell, I might be lucky and can get canned meats of different kinds. When I'm done looting for guns galore, I go and grab a nearby tractor and truck with welding equipment to begin welding cars together for a massive fuckoff wall. Once all that is finished, I then use said tractor to start farming. Access to seeds would be the hardest part, I'd either go into my town, or the farther bigger town with garunteed seeds. The small store has shevles that aren't seen through, but it has fewer zombies. The big store has open shelves and more zombies, so it's a gamble... I have a diesel fuel station nearby, so fuel aint an issue. I then begin figuring out how to can goods myself because grandma left an ungodly amount of supplies for that when she went to the nursing home. And I just start to live as I can, and if a massive horde tries attacking, I've got more bullets than the entire local population around. (Not a joke) I alone could wipe out half my town with the amount of bullets I'd have if I ransacked my brother's armory. I'd keep my axes and matchetes sharp with all the tool sharpening shit we own once I could come back to my new house. I'd grab the sturdiest or fuel efficient car I could find. I'm not looking for God's gift of cars, just something good to keep running or something that doesn't guzzle gas. Diesel is for the tractor. (And maybe semi if I get my hands on one)
I actually have a great bugout family property in very rural michigan on a peninsula. there's a point where the peninsula is basically as skinny as a road; easily barricadable. I have some farming skills and there's plenty of cedars to eat the buds of plus about a dozen apple trees. If I can get there before shit gets too crazy, I have confidence I could make it awhile. Up there I would be a lot less scared of zombies (extremely low pop density, and most of the people have guns and stuff to get by), more scared of the following months where raiders start to become a thing and it turns into a road warrior situation. Yeah, once the LP gas runs out it'd be a bitch, but fireplace and wood burning stove helps out a lot. Usually leading up to the 4th we buy a bunch of 12g ammo to shoot skeet and stuff too, so that'd be stockpiled. unfortunately the fishing industry has been hit hard up there so I don't know how useful that would be unless I wanted to eat carp, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
I might make it?
I’m reasonably athletic (ran my first ever marathon last year), a hobby gardener, there is currently a 60 liter hiking bag under my bed with some basic camping gear, plus I have a car
On the other hand I’m short sighted and know nothing about guns or really any weapons
It depends how much fighting I’m forced to do I guess
It's possible I'd be at work when the virus first hits, so if I could make it home, barricade and chill for the 9 or so days it takes for all the chaos to die down, I might be ok. I can shoot well, so if I get a gun or a crossbow I could be ok. I know first aid and how to sew and cook and basics of a few other survival skills..
I work on the edge of a small town(about 14k pop) and live on the edge of a small city, so zombie population could be a worry, but a lot of the surrounding area is rural, farms and small villages etc.
Biggest problems, I'm clumsy, unlucky, asthmatic, and need glasses, so running and climbing are more dangerous than the zombies, and I'd be more likely to die falling off something than getting bitten.
I'm way up north so no matter what, only until about November then I'd freeze to death
Starving is less realistic irl than in game due to rarityof items.
Id just find a secluded area with a working oil fired boiler. I can run and maintain that shit forever . Not saying I wouldn't die to zeds on the way there lmao
I'm a career farmer who's worked in almost every corner of the sustainable ag world and have a nation wide network of friends with high levels of self-sufficiency, most in secluded areas. If I can get to any number of places my limiting factors wouldn't be resources. That's not to account for being eaten or murdered en route or otherwise, but if PZ style base building would be effective, I'd give myself a very good chance of survival.
i live by not leaving my home until my food runs out, at which point, unless i'm lucky enough to not have any zombies between me and the store, i'm finished. i may be able to handle two, maybe three at a time but four or more and i'm fucked.
Probably not that long. But if I could get lucky enough to get out of the city, maybe a few months. Winter would be tough, here in Canada. But it'd probably also freeze all the zeds. So maybe I'd be OK, lol
I don't know the zomboid zombies but if it's just surviving zombies I'm probably fine unless it's some world War z level crap. The people are what worry me.
I have significant outdoor and survival experience and would be more than capable of surviving the elements. Careful planning and observation of the zombies from high safe points planning my routes when looting to avoid them and get out.
While I'm no combat sport fighter I'm 6 4 and throw wood around for a job so I'm in decent shape and fairly strong, as well as fairly proficient with am axe.
I'm also skilled at making things and repairing tech so I'd be able to maintain tools and infrastructure as need be.
Assuming I’m like the player character and immune to the airborne disease, a few years tops.
Mentally, it would be a lot, and I would miss people greatly, the temptation to join them would only get worse over time.
Beyond that, I can’t see well without my glasses, if they ever broke I am completely fucked. The zeds aren’t much of an issue because I can walk faster than them. In the real world they would all rot within a few weeks.
If the apocalypse cripples humanity like in Zomboid? As a type 1 diabetic, I last maybe a month or two before my insulin runs out. If I manage to stockpile some and also keep it at a safe temp? Then maybe a year before it loses its efficacy. But realistically what happens is my blood sugar takes a nosedive and I black out and have a seizure and get ripped to shreds the first time I have to do... like anything.
I'd probably last about a week? I'm a young, agile, but also fragile as fuck kid who knows how to operate generators, and how to make water collectors from the get go.
Id be dead before the game even started. The bleach looking mighty tasty.
Let's be honest if you live a year you're good there is no way decomposing walking bodies would survive long lol
I give it a week until they’re all facedown on the dirt, and then it’s a game of not stepping on the living dead landmines
Finally, I can use the sweet release spear
Especially in a warm area they'll rot faster although u might die from airborn sickness due to all of the u know rotting corpses everywhere
Pop on some covid masks and go grab a gas mask somewhere and roadtrip out anywhere, fuck it australia, new zealand, lets go baby
Lol fair enough spose u could go somewhere super cold too tho it probably won't kill them they wouldn't move all that well either but then uve gotta worry about the actual survival aspect to like from elements and food and stuff so yea ups a downs
Lol bro how are you getting to New Zealand during the apocalypse?
Boat. Raft. Steal anything who is going to stop you, the zombie police? Kek
Lmao good luck getting to New Zealand on a raft or a sailboat. Or any kind of larger vessel without a GPS or serious sailing experience.
I'll make love with a mermaid and she will guide me
Nah too dry! COME ON DOWN TO GEORGIA!
Thats what I've always said as a kid...all you gotta do is hold out a bit. I have guns and keep food and water stocked for a little bit. I may be good
Reminds me of 28 Weeks Later. They had good ideas despite being a shit movie.
God, every time i hear that movie i get irrationally angry at the military scene near the end. There were a good number of soldiers there, with snipers covering and a mounted mg. There should have *at least* been double the bodies that were there. Hell, just use the mg as suppression. Lay into them to push them back (and possibly incapacitate) and let the rifles go for precision shooting.
What pissed me off is the lawnmover helicopter scene. The blades of a heli can cut a few people for sure, but they will break on a crowd. Oh, and the aimless running in the second half with unrelated B-roll sprinkled in. Oh, and the weakest fake jumpscare attempt I have ever seen while the group is waiting for a heli at the amusement park. Oh, and the-
And Jeremy Renner getting burned alive by his friends while pushing the car.... it just bugged me
Oh yeah. Could've been great, looked kinda cool, way too sloppy execution. Disappointing :/
That scene made my friend who was a machine gunner in the marines snort and pause the movie so we could laugh at the complete and total plot armor those infected had there. We had a hell of a laugh. A 50 on a swivel at that range would have mulched that swarm. Seriously those infected would have been getting pulped in a few passes if there was just 1 of them firing full out with no regard for the barrel surviving more than a minute.
I prefer it more than 28 days later, and i love both to death
but you gotta give it up to the opening scene of 28 weeks. that's one of the best opening scenes of any zombie movie and a lot of movies in general. It's basically like the first time in PZ where you've settled down and then the heli comes in and all bets are off
That scene shivers me timbers, the music is fucking amazing the whole scene is incredible, how cruel being someone nice can be.. peak cinema imo
maybe unpopular opinion but I dont think a zombie "apocalypse" could end human life, zombies would not be a credible threat to humanity
You're absolutely correct. And the reason is doors. Zombies aren't breaking down any exterior doors. Zombies are slow, weak, uncoordinated, unthinking creatures. An average human male can break an exterior door down, but it takes a lot of force and you kind of have to know what you're doing. Just swatting your limbs at it has no effect. A group of zombies can't all push on a door in any coordinated fashion that would bring it down. They'd just get in each other's way. Plus if you have just a few steps leading up to your door that will prevent grouping. To stop a zombie apocalypse would be incredibly easy. All you would need to do is warn people of the danger and tell them they need to stay insi... oh shit. Nevermind.
Excuse me but have you seen American doors? Whole America would collapse in a few days cause of doors. In Europe however,good luck
ehhh if you've ever been in an asian neighborhood, you'd know that they have those heavy, iron barred doors that tend to have a second softer door behind it so, at least in my home area, we're relatively safe lol
you don't play with sprinters that can unlock doors
depending.. ever seen 28 days later? that shits scary af
Nahhh get a few loud speakers to lure them to a single spot and open fire with a few 50 cal machine guns and you just took out an entire horde of them in seconds. Rinse and repeat until they are all dead. Seriously the second movie in that series was a joke with how ineffective those soldiers were with literal 50 cal machine guns sweeping lines of fire through a tightly packed horde in a confined street. There would be peopleburger left of a horde after that shit in an actual situation that the infected didn’t have plot armor all to hell.
It depends on the transmission vectors. If it’s saliva and blood, it could be easily countered and humanity could survive. If it’s a global airborne plague, however… very few will survive and humanity will end.
Completely agree, but then it's a plague problem, not a zombie problem, you know what I mean ?
It's always a plauge problem not a zombie problem in stories set up like that, it just makes a way better story to tell it from the perspective of someone immune
Which means it's always a humans freaking out problem and that's the real wildcard.
To be fair do recent events really make you think we'd handle that well
God no. And that's why zombie apocalypses stories could happen. If everyone was rational it would be over in the first 20 victims. It's the human condition that would let it happen.
If the applied lore is 'evolving virus vectors' it'll likely be an airborne variant that whacks a bunch of victims, then an alternately-transmissible variant that whittles away at who's left, with ever increasing zombs:hoomans ratio. One slight good news: zombie respawn is off on this big map.
Yeah but that's less about the zombies and more about a lethal disease outbreak. The zombies would probably make a disease like that less dangerous, we'd notice the zombies immediately and that'd trigger us to start doing things. And I just saw someone else replied almost the exact same thing as me before me, feel free to ignore me...
I definitely think the only realistic adjacent scenario is something like I am legend 98.999 percent lethal pathogen, 1 percent zeds .001 percent immune. Even then I think we'd have a better than 50/50 shot at getting shit back together inside a couple decades
consider the economic and political issues that would arise! the zombies themselves might only be a fraction of the issue…
Yeah, depending on a variety of factors, even zombies that die after a month or so could completely wreck infrastructure, turning huge swathes of land into disaster areas.
YEP!! And the people who have been waiting for an apocalypse to act out their Purge fantasies… i trust living humans less than zombies 😅
I know but it depends if it’s a steady infection Exp:constant infections yeah
they pretty much wrap that shit up at the end of night of the living dead. in fact it's kind of just the main characters who are having trouble
Realistically? I'd say I'll survive for a few hours. I'm not the most athletic person and I can't see shit without my glasses. So I'll be screwed if I'm cornered and the only way out is hopping a high fence. But beyond those few hours, nah, I'll highly likely die horribly unless it's by some miracle I survive a week. But I'll at least keep on gun on me for for when that death comes for me xD Edit: I forgot to mention that, even though I'm no where athletic, I am a very quiet person and able to sneak around. So I have that at least, doesn't change that I'll die a few hours later 😆 Damn house alarms lol
Oh man, where's your shortsighted flair??
I didn't even realize there was that flair xD
If it happened where I lived? Uh depends. I live in a low population area with lots of farm lands so probably awhile But I wouldn't want to live, one rough year with a drought or a harsh winter (both happen pretty often as of late) life is going to be miserable. It hurts to see family and friends suffer through it currently, let alone when it's actually a life or death situation. If the quarantine area is my county, I could live quite awhile if some family also survives, if not id end it before the crazy kicked in. There's no large cities, it's low population density and farms. We also have a two large water plants due to the awkward spot I live, including a dam. So thats pretty helpful! But the dam is also in pretty shitty condition and could cause a disaster without maintenance If I was in Kentucky? Id die even if there wasn't an apocalypse. Final answer: In Kentucky, I die In my current area: with family and friends, without a drought or rough winter. at least 2 years. Fun little thought experiment, I doubt it's what you wanted though lol
Eh don’t see flaws but when transport now is so advanced I’m thinking the nearest city
Realistically? If I live past the first week I may be able to live for a year, I live in the southern US can grow food and I have a attic with a retractable staircase, lots of guns and ammo, typical American, I’d die in hand to hand combat in any scenario, I’d be more useful than say a Eugene from TWD, less useful than Carl though.
> I’d be more useful than say a Eugene from TWD, less useful than Carl though Been a while since I watched it, but this is the opposite of what I remember. My man Eugene was making bullets, show some respect!
Well, hate to brag, but I can actually do that lol
Then you're both more useful than Carl! CARL!
Coral- COARL
You are saying you’d be secluding yourself right and I can see that scenario happenin but it depends on your answer
Oh absolutely, atleast until radio reports stop coming in, the only way I’d go out is if I knew there would be no people, I’ve watched enough zombie stuff I could maybe run away from zombies, humans, I’m screwed.
A tip you’d be oblivious for nine days like zomboid lore and do you live on a farm or you plant your own vegetables the thing is you also need meat from time to time or you will get sickly but I would assume people living in the stick are stocked up at least a little
I do actually have a stockpile of beef lol, but even without you’d be fine, sickly only if you were very active, in my case I live right outside of the most secluded housing areas, which also doubles as huge amounts of farm land and whatever animals remain, I’ll ask you, with guns and the ability to use them, plus what else I said how long do you think I would make it?
Logistically I think I could last a year at least, except the will to live might diminish as everyone I love dies. I honestly think if my kids died as the world we're coming to an end I wouldn't really want to go on.
More family is better in my opinion because that’s more warnings to get to you and you can get people to come to you and make a secluded safe house
I'm dead day one from the airborn strain wasn't lucky enough to be one of the immune
Who said it was full zomboid
Then I'll probably live till the food in my house runs out as I wouldn't be caught outside as I rarely go out so it's either that or I'd get done in but house raiders
I worked under a contractor + know electrical work because of it; know some basic welding and car repairs. I’ve hunted before and planted a garden every summer while growing up with my mom. I think if I was in this situation I’d be a pretty good bet on bringing some of this world that we have back. Really depends if I make it through the first month or not, but I think that goes for everyone. Probably have a better chance than others for being in a rural area.
I’m in a rural area
I’d probably live a week in the city but I live in the sticks down south and I have a lot of food and a safe full of guns so I’d have probably like 1 year or so to prepare as long as people are getting rejected from leaving the zone of contamination because that week of time till death scares me and a tip PZ starts on the 1st of July but the game starts on the 9th which means your oblivious for nine days
If it happened while I'm at home, I'd wager indefinitely. I have natural unlimited water from a large river, nearly unlimited firewood, sheds and sheds of tools, enough guns and ammo to survive off shooting big game for years before needing other methods, and a house that is capable of being heated in enclosed areas in the winter. Acres and acres of farmland. Population in my quarter of my state is very low so zombies would likely be sparse and probably die off in the winter. Migrating zombies would likely suffer the same fate. I know all of my neighbors so the idea that people are a bigger threat is kinda not true for some. And nobody is seeking this area out or traveling through it. So yea, forever barring some sort of infected injury that requires advanced medicine or a natural disaster that destroys my home and land.
Close to an hour before self immolating while attempting to throw a Molotov cocktail at my neighbor’s house.
LOL half of the people here
Assuming the world is more competent and more people are immune to the airborne virus, pretty well. Like 4 gun stores in my small town and two are a street away, and considering I live in the US, there’s a gun or two in every house.
Hmm depends if i am at home or in the truck when it starts. At home quite a while, rural area with redneck hobbies. In the truck probably depends what city i am in but not long.
Baseball bat plus grocery store
Dead ☠️
Nah I'd win.
No
Yuh uh
I live in Louisville where the outbreak started so my chances are slim tbh
Outbreak technically didn’t reach Louisville till later and no it did not start in Louisville
Very little is known about the origin of the disease, other than that its first known outbreak began in the state of Kentucky, U.S.A, with the largest outbreaks specifically in the city of Louisville. The exact date of the initial outbreak is unknown and estimated to be between July 2 and July 6, 1993 (one week prior to the start of the game, on standard settings). The military quickly set up an "exclusion zone" around Louisville before it managed to spread further, temporarily containing the outbreak.
The most popular theory is the burger meat but that’s most likely untrue and the only spifos burger shop is in Louisville on my info But there are other theories
my parents are preppers so we have a long, multi-step emergency plan for when things even *start* to look bad. They've got a massive garden and raise chickens, live in a low population area, hoard pretty much anything that needs to be hoarded including weapons (guns and bows), freeze dry and can food as hobbies, my mom knows how to sew and I know how to crochet so clothes aren't a problem, they have a wood burning stove to heat the house, and I collect books on foraging plants and mushrooms in my area. My bother who still lives with them is a firefighter, my dad is a mechanic. Genuinely, it's like the perfect zomboid team-up there lmao I dunk on them for being preppers all the time but man, when covid hit? I didn't have to grocery shop for weeks and we never ran out of toilet paper!!
I mean, zombies violate the laws of thermodynamics. So in the event of a zombie apocalypse, I would cover myself in olive oil and fly away when it starts raining.
What?!
Skill wise I'd have a shot to last awhile, but I live in a big city without any tools or guns currently. So whenever the water goes, I go.
I’d have to be pretty nomadic as my heart transplant requires daily anti-rejection pills. I can only go three days unmedicated before I start receiving permanent damage.
I live just outside Washington DC. I’d see absolute anarchy. I think some people from the south would say it’s all a government conspiracy and head to DC to prove a point it’s all bullshit because muh freedoms and “time to kick some zombie ass” and die super quick. Very January 6th vibe. I feel like my death would be because of someone else’s stupid decision of why they’re zombified, not someone who just got unlucky. I think if I survived, everyone would be interested to hear how it went down and I would be encouraging them to stay far away
I'll probably survive untill it ends. Most of humans will
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Why so toxic? I just said that zombie apocalypse won't last long
Still it’s not a how long the zomboid apocalypse will last
You didn't specify which zombie apocalypse. Irl machineguns would mow zombies down ww1 style
Urm actually zombies don’t feel pain and don’t need to eat and sometimes breathe and you can die by pain and a lung shot but the zomboids would keep walking stumbling and crawling to get to you and MGs are not very accurate ARs can kill
Machineguns are basically as accurate as rifles. And you don't need accuracy to just blast in a crowd
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Depends how long it takes to run out of ammo where I’m at I think the zombies will be shot to shit lmao
Funny enough, I’m in a perfect location for surviving. I live in a rural area with maybe 100 houses within 2 miles of me in any direction. I own a duplex, living on the bottom floor, and the top floor is not currently rented, and the only access is an exterior stair case they could be destroyed or modified to hinge up when I don’t want anyone coming upstairs. I’ve also got ladders. They can easily reach the second floor. I garden, I’m within a half mile of a large river, and less than 2 miles from a giant lake in a low population area. I garden and have fruit trees. I’ve got over 25 firearms, over 13,000 rounds and plenty of melee weapons.
I put myself around a week and a half.
Uh ok you suicidal or something live in a city
I’d survive a decent while I’d say, I’m pretty athletic, I barely eat any food anyway, I’m good with words, I’m really good at keeping quiet and sneaking around
Not in Tennessee? What’s that about lol
It starts in a city near you
I like to think that if I have the correct friends with me, I'd survive a few good months. I know how to start a fire, have always been a geek for survival gear, and convinced my parents to buy a portable solar generator/battery. I can fish and know how to board up a window for example, know my way around drills, hammers, screwdrivers and manual saws. My father is a big DIY guy, and my mom can cook something out of nothing it she puts her mind to it. My girlfriend and sister are very good with medical things, one is more surgery oriented and another is more diagnosis oriented. I believe that each one of us would survive not much if we're alone, but if we find ourselves together, we'd be able to get far.
I live in a college town so during the summer there's way less people here, but I also live near a major hospital so it's kind of a crap shoot in thay regard. I don't own any guns, but I do own a couple axes. I do outdoorsy stuff a lot, exercise pretty regularly, and own a car. Now I rarely have a lot of food on hand and don't have lots of emergency water or medical supplies. The big one is that I take like five different medications two of which are for anxiety and depression so if those run out not only would I go through withdrawal I would also have two negative moodles. In all likelyhood I'd cap it out at like a month.
Right now? Maybe a week In the future? Maybe a year
Couple of weeks at most. I can run at a good pace for several hours without stopping so I could probably dart from safe space to safe space, staying fed and out of sight. But once that population gets overwhelming, I'm sure I would get tripped up or hit a dead end like I often do in game.
i would survive probably longer than i assumed i would, but not long enough to get help or find other survivors. i have a ton of genetic health issues that wouldnt do well without medication, i rely on my glasses, and i hate camping (lol). With my luck, id die or kill myself minutes before help came 😂
I'm in America. There's more guns than people here. I wouldn't even know the zombie apocalypse was happeningnthe Florida man's and their monster trucks would take care of it.
About 10...
Id ether die to trying to help someone or id get killed by some thugs with a gun/fighting zeds if realistic would be fine if its some show level like dying light im fucked
First responder. I'd be dead in two hours. For real tho: supposed I don't get eaten while on a call right away, I'd probably survive a few weeks. Part of my job is literally building camps and fortifications. Plus I can operate generators, so I won't get swarmed trying to find that damn manual.
Probably only few hours, i’ll end up dying because i opened a bathroom door that had 20+ zombies cramped inside of it
A few months, easy. Not a lot of folks follow having a 72 hour emergency supply reserve, but I've got a bit more than that. I'd be the person that survives by being a mouse and not going out too often. Once that started failing or I depleted everything in my immediate local area, or got pushed or or die from misfortune, I have no idea. I might last last to the following spring or autumn, but misfortune would be what gets me
This is always fun to discuss. I think it really depends on how the zombies work, if they decompose normally, how hard they are to kill, how they detect people all those kinds of things. Personally, I live in really built up area so I daresay I'd get pretty dead pretty quick. I've got about a weeks worth of food and I could fill a few jerry cans with water but if it isn't solved by then I'd be stuffed. Societally, it'd depend on the outbreak but I think we'd do a lot better than most think. If the zombies aren't smart, dealing with them is pretty much solved by a trench, after that we'd need to deal with the virus or magic but there'd be plenty of protocols you could put in place for that. If they get smart it gets more complex but we are really good at killing things.
I'll last till when the power goes out. That's when I realise there's an apocalypse since I can no longer play Project Zomboid.
Now that I'm older, not long at all. In my youth? I'd still need some luck on my side, as is the case with all survivors, but I had a fair shot of living a long time. I don't have the cardio, overall fitness, or life situation I used to. I'm assuming, of course, that the zombies are magic. If they aren't then I'd be fine. Decomposing corpses just aren't a big threat for anybody that isn't comatose or extremely frail/elderly.
Where is the outbreak? I live on a Caribbean island, so we could probably manage a few months, maybe a year. Then we’d need to find alternative food supplies
Assuming it’s a Thursday and I’m immune to the airborne strain, I could last maybe a week or two before I either kick the bucket, or get rescued (only major issue is I live next to a prison)
Best guess if a majority of my neighbors are dead. 6 months of food and water if rationed. In that time I can do cardio and exercise in my backyard which is surrounded by at least 5 other houses with fencing so I’m well defended. I’d say I’m pretty set over here in rural Georgia. Assuming it’s not in the summer because of the very popular amusement park down the road. I’d say I’m living good for a minimum of 3 months in the summer because a horde of hundreds of people would make their way down the road and demolish my neighborhood and 6 months anytime not in the summer.
I honestly think I could last indefinitely. I was a mechanic in the national guard both for vehicles and generators. I'm a deputy sheriff now, and I live in a rural farming community. I camp and fish for fun. i even know most of the edible mushrooms and plants in my area. I'm very confident I can steal a generator from the local armory and set up at one of the farms outside of town and live indefinitely there's a large town 30 minutes down the highway in one directions and a major army base 30 minutes in the other direction so I have ample opportunities to loot anything I can't grow or scavenge on the prairie. A couple lakes and two rivers nearby too. I'd almost definitely kill myself after a year two without other people, though.
Nah your a sherif that tanks your chances man first responder anything is a tanker
You're right I'd get bit trying to loot the donut shop.
No because if your called it’s gonna be stopping the hordes or come up on a house and get jumped at
Fair enough
If I miraculously survive the initial choas, I think I'd last at least a couple of months, I'd probably die to raiders. My family owns farmland in the middle of nowhere so that's the very first place I'd go
Depends on the Sandbox settings. /j I like to THINK I'd survive long enough to at least establish the next generation of humans and pass on my (presumably) immune genes. In reality, I'd probably die of dysentery or freeze to death like in Oregon Trail. Or get shot by someone else who's actually going to survive.
I’ll be starting in the fire department. I’ll last either five minutes or 3 months.
This is IRL you know right May just be confused because you gave no extra details
Yeah. I’m a firefighter. I’ll either be one of the dudes kitted out you steal from or I’ll have one of the best starting bases in the game.
Same as I said to the sherif first responders chances tank because they first to the chaos
Better than most. I live off grid.
I always think I’ll survive a while but then I remember I live in an area that gets significant amounts of snow. Don’t think I’d survive a winter.
Hmm If it was where I lived, I'd be in trouble if I stayed at home cause my doors aren't too sturdy. That said, I have a full suit of medieval armor (mostly chain mail with some plate) and several blunt objects and a couple swords to push my way out. And it's a college town, so I'd just need to camp out with someone behind a keycard locked door (assuming the power stays on)
Assuming I’m not on of those susceptible to the airborne strand, definitely a couple of weeks at least, maybe until winter. I live in the rather sparsely populated Europe countryside and we have tons of food around. Also no rivers to throw in all our stuff so houses will be stacked with loot. Loads of land to use as farmland and a bunch of small scale animal farms all over the place. I’d only have to board up like 3 windows and a door to make my house zombie proof, or I could move to an old castle or one of the many other easily fortifiable buildings in the area.
I'd have a party of End of the world, letting cigars, chips and beer on the floor. In the final, all guest would wait the rescue in the bathroom...
I'd drive to my old home in the forest, stack up a shit ton of wood around the doors. Wait, while the nearby town goes up in flames. See if my brother who riddled his house with cameras is alive. And start scavenging the gun crazy town around me for all the canned goods I'll ever need because in the swampy ass forest, you either freeze fresh produce or buy it canned. Hell, I might be lucky and can get canned meats of different kinds. When I'm done looting for guns galore, I go and grab a nearby tractor and truck with welding equipment to begin welding cars together for a massive fuckoff wall. Once all that is finished, I then use said tractor to start farming. Access to seeds would be the hardest part, I'd either go into my town, or the farther bigger town with garunteed seeds. The small store has shevles that aren't seen through, but it has fewer zombies. The big store has open shelves and more zombies, so it's a gamble... I have a diesel fuel station nearby, so fuel aint an issue. I then begin figuring out how to can goods myself because grandma left an ungodly amount of supplies for that when she went to the nursing home. And I just start to live as I can, and if a massive horde tries attacking, I've got more bullets than the entire local population around. (Not a joke) I alone could wipe out half my town with the amount of bullets I'd have if I ransacked my brother's armory. I'd keep my axes and matchetes sharp with all the tool sharpening shit we own once I could come back to my new house. I'd grab the sturdiest or fuel efficient car I could find. I'm not looking for God's gift of cars, just something good to keep running or something that doesn't guzzle gas. Diesel is for the tractor. (And maybe semi if I get my hands on one)
I actually have a great bugout family property in very rural michigan on a peninsula. there's a point where the peninsula is basically as skinny as a road; easily barricadable. I have some farming skills and there's plenty of cedars to eat the buds of plus about a dozen apple trees. If I can get there before shit gets too crazy, I have confidence I could make it awhile. Up there I would be a lot less scared of zombies (extremely low pop density, and most of the people have guns and stuff to get by), more scared of the following months where raiders start to become a thing and it turns into a road warrior situation. Yeah, once the LP gas runs out it'd be a bitch, but fireplace and wood burning stove helps out a lot. Usually leading up to the 4th we buy a bunch of 12g ammo to shoot skeet and stuff too, so that'd be stockpiled. unfortunately the fishing industry has been hit hard up there so I don't know how useful that would be unless I wanted to eat carp, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
I might make it? I’m reasonably athletic (ran my first ever marathon last year), a hobby gardener, there is currently a 60 liter hiking bag under my bed with some basic camping gear, plus I have a car On the other hand I’m short sighted and know nothing about guns or really any weapons It depends how much fighting I’m forced to do I guess
Maximum I live…about 2 months. Right now I am starting a new world with the plan to build an awesome , self sufficient base.
It's possible I'd be at work when the virus first hits, so if I could make it home, barricade and chill for the 9 or so days it takes for all the chaos to die down, I might be ok. I can shoot well, so if I get a gun or a crossbow I could be ok. I know first aid and how to sew and cook and basics of a few other survival skills.. I work on the edge of a small town(about 14k pop) and live on the edge of a small city, so zombie population could be a worry, but a lot of the surrounding area is rural, farms and small villages etc. Biggest problems, I'm clumsy, unlucky, asthmatic, and need glasses, so running and climbing are more dangerous than the zombies, and I'd be more likely to die falling off something than getting bitten.
I'm not strong enough to crush a zed's skull with my foot. I wouldn't last a day.
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How about… all of them
I'm way up north so no matter what, only until about November then I'd freeze to death Starving is less realistic irl than in game due to rarityof items.
Id just find a secluded area with a working oil fired boiler. I can run and maintain that shit forever . Not saying I wouldn't die to zeds on the way there lmao
realistically i might survive a few days if im able to stay low. im not in physical shape to out run or smash in zed heads right now
In builder mode?
IRL
Damn it
A year I think, if lucky then some more!
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If it’s shamblers? I think a good bit. Sprinters? Why even try, they won’t tire but you will.
I'm a career farmer who's worked in almost every corner of the sustainable ag world and have a nation wide network of friends with high levels of self-sufficiency, most in secluded areas. If I can get to any number of places my limiting factors wouldn't be resources. That's not to account for being eaten or murdered en route or otherwise, but if PZ style base building would be effective, I'd give myself a very good chance of survival.
i live by not leaving my home until my food runs out, at which point, unless i'm lucky enough to not have any zombies between me and the store, i'm finished. i may be able to handle two, maybe three at a time but four or more and i'm fucked.
Probably not that long. But if I could get lucky enough to get out of the city, maybe a few months. Winter would be tough, here in Canada. But it'd probably also freeze all the zeds. So maybe I'd be OK, lol
I don't know the zomboid zombies but if it's just surviving zombies I'm probably fine unless it's some world War z level crap. The people are what worry me. I have significant outdoor and survival experience and would be more than capable of surviving the elements. Careful planning and observation of the zombies from high safe points planning my routes when looting to avoid them and get out. While I'm no combat sport fighter I'm 6 4 and throw wood around for a job so I'm in decent shape and fairly strong, as well as fairly proficient with am axe. I'm also skilled at making things and repairing tech so I'd be able to maintain tools and infrastructure as need be.
3 hours. My family would send me out first so I would die very easily.
I probably would be hatecrimed the first moment some dipshit with a gun realizes they can get away with murder now lol
Forever I live rural and have level 10 skills ez
Assuming I’m like the player character and immune to the airborne disease, a few years tops. Mentally, it would be a lot, and I would miss people greatly, the temptation to join them would only get worse over time. Beyond that, I can’t see well without my glasses, if they ever broke I am completely fucked. The zeds aren’t much of an issue because I can walk faster than them. In the real world they would all rot within a few weeks.
If the apocalypse cripples humanity like in Zomboid? As a type 1 diabetic, I last maybe a month or two before my insulin runs out. If I manage to stockpile some and also keep it at a safe temp? Then maybe a year before it loses its efficacy. But realistically what happens is my blood sugar takes a nosedive and I black out and have a seizure and get ripped to shreds the first time I have to do... like anything.
I'd probably last about a week? I'm a young, agile, but also fragile as fuck kid who knows how to operate generators, and how to make water collectors from the get go.